My First Quilt Sandwich

Posted by Jenn in All Posts, Quilting | 0 comments

Being a newbie quilter, I watched a lot of YouTube videos as well as Camille Roskelley’s Craftsy Pre-Cut Piecing Made Simple Class course and Leah Day’s Craftsy Free Motion Quilting a Sampler course on how to prepare and baste a quilt sandwich.  LOL hope I am using the right terms for it :).

This was a slow process as I had to do it over 3 stages using my dining table.  Hopefully I did it right.  I used 100% cotton batting for this quilt.

Now to quilt it.  Thinking I might use the walking foot and “stitch in the ditch” as I do not have enough practice with FMQ.

The quilt top was made using a layer cake of CHERRY ON TOP by Keiki, white quilting fabric and backing fabric as borders on the very top and bottom of the quilt top.  This quilt will be for my 6yo DD.  She chose the layer cake as she loves anything cupcake/baking related.  She also chose the backing fabric as it reminded her of My Little Pony (the colours).

Edit: After I basted my quilt top, I enrolled in Ann Petersen’s Craftsy Beyond Basic Machine Quilting course. She also shows a great way to baste your quilt top using spray adhesive.